Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The will to power is like the raw ingredients used to develop wine, or fine cooking. We might be able to survive on the raw ingredients, but why would we want to?

Even if the radicals and revolutionaries succeed in destroying the evolved traditions, the raw ingredients, which they attempt to use to form their new societies, will themselves naturally evolve more or less the same wine-making and cooking techniques all over again, because human nature does these things.

It is better to carefully revitalize the customs and traditions, reforming yet conserving, or even revitalizing as a means to conserve, which seems far more reasonable, practical and possible than attempting to start all over again from scratch.

The forms of wine and cooking techniques will vary from one people to another, as Burke’s “Chartered Rights of Man” develop from a peoples’ historic experience. Destroying customs and traditions dehumanizes men. The savage and the brute–and not the noble savage–lurks beneath the evolved customs and traditions.

A good society needs not only good laws but also religion, tradition, customs and the complex relationships that make up the ingredients of a successful, healthy society.

It is the revolutionaries and radicals who think that perfection is possible, who therefore destroy the long-evolved things, attempting to make more perfect things from simple ingredients, which they never accomplish.

Contrary to what the modern liberals say, conservatives are not against change, change is seen as the way nature works. When conservatives seek to modify the strange and ugly alterations to custom and tradition, they are following nature, where 99 of 100 new mutations don’t survive.

It turns out that traditions, customs and ethics are founded on permanent human nature, more or less, which includes such traditional things, seen in virtually all cultures, as gender differences, territoriality, kin-centeredness, monogamy, hierarchy and even xenophobia. Modern science, e.g. sociobiology or evolutionary psychology, have now affirmed this view of human nature. The traditionalists, at last, can claim science as affirming the basis of traditions and customs.

However, we cannot rush to found our entire worldview on science, since we adjust culture and politics to nature, including human nature, with its many arts and mysteries, and we do not merely adjust to science, which is only a part of human nature. Science alone is like one of those basic ingredients before they are developed into fine cooking or fine wine. The Enlightenment, for example, tried to base their new societies on basic, uncooked ingredients, such as science alone, and this eventually led to the monstrosities of communism, fascism and decaying liberal democracy.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Can a remnant hang on to Western culture, and is that what we must do?

We are prone to the great weakness of the creators of ideologies who develop abstract systems on paper, often with little reference to real life or real living.

Perhaps there is some inherent human need for an orderly long-lasting worldview. Nietzsche thought we would have the void as purpose rather than a world of no purpose.

I begin with what we have learned about human nature as the base of any further speculation on human culture. I apply knowledge I have gleaned from sociobiology and evolutionary conservatism, and whatever other knowledge I can find along the way.

During the age of decay, human nature will probably fall back on its own reserves, as we try to survive the attempted destruction of the old order. We may gradually reaffirm regionalism, more out of necessity than any other reason. The various regions will develop according to their needs and talents.

This, of course, depends on our first not destroying ourselves, or destroying the earth, which is not impossible.

So how do we live in the meantime, what do we believe, how do we think? This blog examines these questions through poetry, and occasional essays.

“All modern political teachings are secularized theological concepts” (Carl Schmitt)

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." Edmund Burke

“The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.” ~Jacques Yves Cousteau

“...For if America is to endure as a nation, her peoples are going to need the freedom to live differently and the space to live apart, according to their irreconcilable beliefs...”

“...Can we all just get along?” asked Rodney King during the Los Angeles riot of 1992. Well, if we can’t, we can at least dwell apart...After all, it’s a big country. ”

Patrick J. Buchanan

"... New faiths have to be grafted upon old ones. All great teachers have built upon the past traditions of the race. They have to come to lead. They alter and adapt the Eternal Ancient Wisdom to the peculiar needs of that race, to the particular Message which that race is destined to leave for humanity. So also the Lord Zoroaster found a certain mass of tradition in Iran and the Message He gave to this branch of the human race was based upon what they had inherited from a dim and distant past..."

http://www.farvardyn.com/zoroaster.php

Decentralize the world to save the world

Truth is one, paths are many

"He who hath grown wise concerning old origins, lo, he will at last seek after the fountains of the future and new origins." (Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spake Zarathustra")

"Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists" – Joseph de Maistre

"Far from being the ultimate measure of all things, man can only realize himself in reaching beyond himself."

(from "Populorum Progressio," Pope Paul VI)

"What is enclosed in the sanctuary of the arcanaIs disclosed in the testimony of phenomena."

- Ibn ‘Ata’illah

"The universe is a machine for making gods." Bergson

“The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” Rilke

"Things change because they are not complete." St. Thomas Aquinas

"All culture arises out of religion. When religious faith decays, culture must decline, though often seeming to flourish for a space of time after the religion which has nourished it has fallen into disbelief... no cultured person should remain indifferent to the erosion of apprehension of the transcendent." Russell Kirk, Eliot and His Age

Fundamentalists claim to be returning to an original Christianity based on biblical texts, seemingly unaware that as early as the third century, Christian scholars such as Origen were arguing that the scriptures, at a time when the New Testament was still not in its final form, needed to be interpreted allegorically rather than literally. Who are the traditionalists here? — Charles Freeman

“A writer’s goal is to fight the lie.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new” Machiavelli

“God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.”

Alfred Adler

Believe one who has tried: You shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in books. The trees and the rocks will teach you what you cannot hear from the masters.

-Bernard of Clairvaux

If I have the least bit of knowledgeI will follow the great Way aloneand fear nothing but being sidetracked.The great Way is simplebut people delight in complexity.Tao Te Ching, 53.

"What is culture? The word itself comes from “cultus” or cult and has intrinsic religious dimensions. Culture, strictly speaking, refers to all the aspects of daily life that bear the imprint of society’s religious center: tools, architecture, clothing, as well as art, literature, and music. From this perspective, culture refers to the sanctification of daily life.”

Arthur Verluis

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

—Euclid

According to Aristotle, nature itself drives toward the good.

"That by which we fall is that by which we rise."Tantric saying

Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." Niels Bohr

"Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for centuries, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it has flowed in the channel the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return to its old bed."[Wotan, C.G. Jung]

“A theory is more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premise, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended its range of applicability…”-Einstein

“To Know the Absolute is to Be the Absolute.” Bede Griffiths

To define is not to know, to be is to know. To be or not to be is indeed the question. KLA

My teachings are very easy to understand and to practice; yet there is no one in the world who is able either to understand or to practice them. This is because my teachings have an originating principle and arise from an integrated system. This is not understood, so I am unknown.

~ Lao Tzu

Take refuge in the law of evolution.

It is possible to learn the outer steps that must be accomplished in a rite without learning the inner meanings that are the keys to the sacred traditions. Each seeker must therefore open his heart to the Great Mystery as he tries to follow the sacred way, because the perfect accomplishment of the outer steps of a rite will be worth nothing without the knowledge of the inner meanings.

Patience is a tree—Its roots may be bitter (to eat),but its fruit is the sweetest of sweet.

-African proverb

"T.S. Eliot pointed out that an artist creates his own "school" of predecessors that nobody noticed had anything in common before."

Steve Sailer

There is no visible thing, in the world, more worthy to serve as a symbol of God than the sun,which illuminates with visible life, first itself,then all the celestial and mundane bodies.- DANTE

We can only accommodate the changing demographics of the nation and the world if we hold fast to the rights and independence of the states and of local rule. Otherwise the always changing demographics may vote the laws and the Constitution out of existence, and the freedom to evolve will be lost. KLA

Every human being is born to develop and evolve on the high path to future Godhood for their descendants, and the Evolutionary Christian Church is the means to activate that potential. KLA

"Accept the truth, whatever its sources."Moses Maimonides

"Every truth – no matter who speaks it – is from the Holy Spirit."(omne verum a quocumque dicatur a Spiritu Sancto est) (St Thomas Aquinas)

It is not words or numbers or the order of words and numbers that govern the Kosmos, it is the Objects that the words and numbers define which govern the Kosmos. (KLA)

Materia and energy are INTERTWINED with time in physics. So there can not be any time before materia and energy, neither can we say that materia and energy are eternal as if there was some kind of meta-time, because there is no such thing. And if the supernatural does exist, it is natural. There is no point in talking of something being supernatural. If something does exist IT IS PART OF NATURE, part of Ahura.

Alexander Bard

“The purer the person or the thing is, the quicker the world will violate and destroy it.” Dowson